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9 vulnerabilities found for category_posts_widget by zephyrwest
FKIE_CVE-2025-1453
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-04-24 06:15 - Updated: 2025-05-07 19:11
Severity ?
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.20 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
References
| URL | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| contact@wpscan.com | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-4266-a95d-033551db43e6/ | Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
| 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-4266-a95d-033551db43e6/ | Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |
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FKIE_CVE-2024-9638
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-07 06:15 - Updated: 2025-05-14 16:09
Severity ?
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
References
| URL | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| contact@wpscan.com | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/119d5249-48e4-429e-8a1d-ad112e0c966d/ | Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |
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FKIE_CVE-2024-6158
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-12 13:38 - Updated: 2025-05-27 21:07
Severity ?
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.17, term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.13 does not validate and escape some of its "Category Posts" widget settings before outputting them back in a page/post where the Widget is embed, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
References
| URL | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| contact@wpscan.com | https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/ | Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiptoppress | term_and_category_based_posts_widget | * | |
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |
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CVE-2025-1453 (GCVE-0-2025-1453)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-24 06:00 – Updated: 2025-04-24 14:39
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.20 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.20
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-9638 (GCVE-0-2024-9638)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:13
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.18
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-6158 (GCVE-0-2024-6158)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-09 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-13 14:25
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.17, term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.13 does not validate and escape some of its "Category Posts" widget settings before outputting them back in a page/post where the Widget is embed, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.17
(semver)
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2025-1453 (GCVE-0-2025-1453)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-04-24 06:00 – Updated: 2025-04-24 14:39
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
0 , < 4.9.20
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-9638 (GCVE-0-2024-9638)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:13
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
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|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-6158 (GCVE-0-2024-6158)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-08-09 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-13 14:25
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.17, term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.13 does not validate and escape some of its "Category Posts" widget settings before outputting them back in a page/post where the Widget is embed, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.17
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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